AMIA LEAD Fund Trainee Awardees

In 2016 AMIA celebrated the launch of a new donation fund designated to support AMIA’s philanthropic giving plans. The new fund is aptly named, the AMIA Leadership and Education Award (LEAD) Fund.

2022 Awardees

Clinical Informatics Conference Travel Award

Youmin Cho, MSN, RN, AGPCNP-BC

PhD Student

University of Michigan

This is my first time participating in an AMIA conference. By attending the AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference (CIC), I will get an excellent opportunity to meet a variety of health informatics experts from across the country and create a network. My research interest is in using electronic patient-reported outcome data collection systems in oncology clinical trials and routine care settings. I expect to obtain diverse perspectives about clinical informatics and technology applications from many health informatics professionals by attending the CIC. I also hope to identify the latest trends in technology and informatics in clinical care settings, which will assist in my research.

Humayera Islam, MS

Doctoral Student

University of Missouri-Columbia

I have been an AMIA student member since 2020. I participated in the 2021 Virtual Informatics Summit and presented my student paper at the 2021 Annual Symposium.
My poster titled "A data visualization dashboard for an Intensive Care Setting" has been accepted at the CIC. This work is significant in a time where visualization of patient information can bring enormous changes in improving communication among the care providers and overall critical care. Attending the CIC provides me with a platform to meet other researchers in the field working towards improving healthcare and will help to enhance my knowledge in clinical informatics. My doctoral research is aligned with the goals of the CIC and meeting new people would also help to expand my contacts for assistance in career development.

Jane Jarshaw

Medical Student

University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine

The opportunity to present at the 2022 AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference is my first interaction with AMIA. I discovered an interest in medical informatics during medical school, and I've participated in a number of medical informatics research projects since. In my future career, I hope to continue with research related to medical informatics, and also to educate. The opportunity to present my findings at this conference will allow me to further develop the skills to be an effective presenter, which is essential as a scientist and educator.

Kevin Patel, MD

Neonatology Fellow

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

I have participated in a number of JAMIA journal club webinars and other educational presentations during my membership in AMIA. As a physician with a strong interest in clinical informatics, participating in the CIC will allow me to share my experience with my project and network with colleagues from different backgrounds. As I prepare to leave training at the end of this academic year and relocate, the conference will serve as a platform to help me find others interested in clinical informatics as I start my work in a new environment.

Yonah Ziemba, MD

Fellow Physician

Northwell Health

I served as a peer-reviewer for AMIA's annual meetings for three consecutive years. I also served as a session chair for the May 2019 AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference in Atlanta, GA.
As a trainee preparing for a career in medical informatics, the CIC is the primary place where I'm able to network with other trainees and build relationships with future mentors. I was able to participate in the 2019 CIC and continue to have relationships that were formed during that conference.

Informatics Summit Travel Award

Vince Hartman

Master's Student

Cornell Tech

Vince Hartman is a Master’s student at Cornell Tech. This will be Vince’s first AMIA conference and presentation. The conference marks his first real participation with AMIA. Vince believes his research and startup career goals align well with AMIA. He intends to participate in the AMIA Informatics Summit and present his paper in order to gather industry input, clinical knowledge, and network with healthcare experts to help create a student business venture around his research. This opportunity also helps provide creditability for him and the creation of his future startup.

Nishant Jain, MS, MHA

Doctoral Candidate

University of Missouri-Columbia

MU Institute of Data Science & Informatics (MUIDSI)

Nishant Jain is currently a PhD student at the University of Missouri’s MU Institute of Data Science and Informatics. Nishant looks forward to attending the Informatics Summit to dive deeper into topics of interest to him including data mining and consumer health informatics, especially through the lens of social media and to target population health. It's an opportunity to engage a wide range of advanced topics with a health informatics focus. Nishant has served as reviewer for three papers for AMIA 2020 & 2021 and participated in the Mental Health Informatics WG and the JAMIA Journal Club in 2020.

Sebastien Kiogou, MS

Doctoral Candidate

University of Minnesota Institute for Health Informatics

Sebastien Kiogou is a student at the University of Minnesota, Institute for Health Informatics. Sebastien has teaching and research aspirations after he graduates. Attending the Summit will give him an opportunity to present before peers and professors as well as to network. Sebastien contributed to a paper that was accepted in the 2020 Summit: The Evaluation of Clinical Classifications Software Using the National Inpatient Sample Database.

Fuchen Li

Research Assistant

Vanderbilt University

Fuchen Li is a student at Vanderbilt University and conducts his research at Wei's Lab at VUMC. For his summer semester research, Fuchen conducted research about the bias and fairness of machine learning models for cardiovascular disease prediction. His mentor recommended the AMIA conference as the best place to share his research findings. He submitted a poster to the AMIA Informatics Summit, and it was accepted. AMIA provides Fuchen with unique resources to understand the cutting-edge development of the field.

Jacqueline Penn

Doctoral Candidate

Thomas Jefferson University - Sidney Kimmel Medical College

Jacqueline Penn is a medical student at Thomas Jefferson University - Digital Health scholarly inquiry track. Jacqueline is just getting started in bioinformatics. Jacqueline feels attending the AMIA Informatics Summit will allow her to explore the possibilities for physicians conducting bioinformatics research. Though physicians can now become board certified in informatics, her school has little opportunity to pursue this type of research. Attending this conference is her chance to see the breadth of research topics in bioinformatics, learn how to incorporate this type of work into her career, and connect with people in the field.

Mengying Yan, BS, MS

PhD Candidate

Duke University

Mengying Yan is currently a second-year student at Duke University in the Biostatistics PhD program. She just started her research related to health informatics. The Informatics Summit will provide good opportunities for her to communicate with people who are interested in different topics within the informatics field. Mengying feels that the 2021 AMIA Symposium really opened her mind, and believes there's a lot to be learned from the AMIA Informatics Summit as well. It will help incorporate different perspectives into her current research and help clarify her career direction.